candidate, his party affiliation was democratic party. so he made that decision that this isn t a symbolic campaign and i ve been telling this to people for months, this is a real campaign. we have a 50-page staff on the ground in iowa. more than 30 on the ground in new hampshire and we re building campaign there is and elsewhere as well. so he understood that the way to get this done, the way to succeed was within the current structure. what he rejects of the current structure however is the structure of super pacs which are polluting our politics. he refuses to engage in the super pac war that s going to be going on with so many campaigns. he refuses the contributions of the billionaires who are trying to buy our political system. instead he s relyingen small grass-root dose nations. and people are stepping forward in tremendous numbers and i think we will have the resources we need to compete against super pac campaigns. okay, tad divine, good to talk to you. thanks so much. tha
legislation introduced not just about abortion but about contraception. and i think when people talk about the war on women, what they say is also sort of the rhetoric. the foster freeze comments of course, but also i don t want to butcher the quote, but lawmakers have locally said you should just close your eyes and deal with it or have it done. you re talking about the in texas, the results of this are that women that the least fortunate women are not getting basic screening and health care because the governor and his legislators turned back the laws. now he wants to defund. and that s a big thing. and another thing too. i understand that among a lot of democrats planned parenthood is just a sainted organization. but there are a lot of people out there that are scratching their head going, wait a second, now. you re going after the top
it s not just men in the back rooms of country clubs that are putting these pieces of legislation together. women have really mentioned that for people who haven t been to a republican meeting. although it is mostly men in the legislature. that s right. trying to get the votes of men and women. but you re right, there are a lot of women on that side of the abortion issue who write me the same emails that they write you. but the public face of what s happening, and indeed the actors behind what s happening, are basically male. but i don t think we should give him a pass on the metaphor. he should stay away from metaphors. it was clumsy. but i m with joe. i don t think he was out there saying, women are caterpillar. that s really not what he s saying. he is trying to figure out a way to say this is all made up. it s a made-up war at this point. to new york. willie, do you and mike consider women to be the equivalent rough equivalent of caterpillars? no. i think it s very
from all sides. it s staggering. the real contest obviously will be between obama and the republican nominee, but there will be that other contest of the super pac war. but in a way, those of us in the news business are going to have to look at those ads because it s going to be a lot of poison, a lot of garbage in them, and sort it out and say this is true, this is untrue. but if you look at the reforms that supposedly have been put in place in the last four decades since nixon, where we are now, it s worse. it is nixon had a $750,000 cash slush fund. and at that time, that was thought, wow, that is really something. it s legalized bags of cash. it is legal. the old bags of cash metaphor. the republican national committee s success is reince
the head of the rnc compared its problem with women voters to an invented problem with mythical caterpillars. if the democrats said we had a problem with war on caterpillars, and the mainstream media talked about it, then we d have a problem with caterpillars. rick santorum promised to fight on in a fantasy he had where he is george washington, and the rest of the field are german mercenaries. and that s why he crossed the delaware, surprised the hessians, and turned the tide of the revolution. in this combative week of national politics, it was ann romney who leapt to her husband s defense, threatening to unleash the beast. do you have to fight back some like my husband isn t stiff, ok? well, you know, i guess we d better unzip him and let the real mitt romney out. well, you know, i guess we d